. 2017 Dec 1;151(1):17–23. doi: 10.1177/1715163517744225

Table 1.

Permissiveness towards suicide and closeness to mental illness

Three items for closeness to mental illness and suicide	11-item (ATTS),²⁶ mean total permissiveness score^* (n, SD)		p-value
Three items for closeness to mental illness and suicide	Yes	No	p-value
Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness (e.g., mood disorder, anxiety disorder, substance use disorder, etc.)?	35.2 (49, 6.1)	33.0 (98, 6.6)	0.76
Does someone close to you (e.g., close friend or relative) live with a mental illness?	33.9 (114, 6.5)	33.2 (33, 6.6)	0.93
Has anyone close to you (e.g., close friend or relative) attempted suicide or died from suicide?	34.4 (62, 5.9)	33.3 (85, 6.9)	0.24

ATTS, Attitudes Toward Suicide scale.²⁶

Scoring: 1, strongly disagree; 2, disagree; 3, neither agree nor disagree; 4, agree; 5, strongly agree. Reverse coding was performed on 2 items (Suicide can never be justified; On the whole, I do not understand how people can take their lives).